Inside a certain plane space at the Virtual Universe headquarters of the Universe Mercenary Alliance.
Void True King was currently splitting off a sliver of consciousness to process some routine information circulating within the alliance.
As one of the core middle-to-high-level members of the alliance, this was a part of the affairs he handled daily.
Suddenly, a system email marked as "Special Attention" lit up at the top of his dedicated internal mission notification bar.
"Oh?" Void True King's true self opened his eyes, a trace of surprise revealing itself within them.
This kind of "Special Attention" email meant that a high-level mission within the Mercenary Alliance mission network was explicitly and by name related to him.
"Three million hunyuan?"
After viewing the mission details, Void True King's brow slightly raised, feeling somewhat surprised.
Three million hunyuan just for a single teaching session; this sum of money was enough to make numerous King-level Immortals tempted.
One had to know that on the Outer Domain Battlefield, quite a few King-rank warriors could not necessarily earn this figure in several thousands of years.
After all, in high-end battlefield locations, an Immortal Body was standard equipment.
As a middle-to-high-level member of the Universe Mercenary Alliance, his authority was high, and he was qualified to see clearly who had initiated it.
"Hu Yanbo?" Void True King thought to himself.
He had some impression of this name.
Back then, Hu Yanbo, with the status of an Immortal Army Lord, successfully enslaved a Marquis Immortal!
This caused quite a stir within the human race immortal circles!
Soul Enslavement was already extremely difficult, and cross-tier enslavement was even more unimaginable!
This proved that Hu Yanbo possessed considerable talent on the Soul Path.
"Why is he in such a hurry to spend three million hunyuan just to listen to me lecture on the seventh layer of the Void Tower?" Void True King deduced in his heart. "It seems he has encountered big trouble or reached a critical bottleneck in his cultivation? He urgently needs to break through his soul defense?"
"Considering that the little fellow's talent on the Soul Path is not bad, accepted!" Void True King smiled and said.
At the level of a Peak King, because of being a soul master no less, Void True King's strength was comparable to a Limit King.
Three million hunyuan was truly small potatoes!
Void True King accepting this request this time was more out of appreciation for Hu Yanbo's talent.
The luxurious great hall of the Yunmo Star Ship.
Hu Yanbo's consciousness withdrew from the Virtual Universe and returned to reality, his brow slightly furrowed.
Three million hunyuan was almost all the wealth he could currently mobilize; although he knew this was the only way to "repay the debt," his heart still inevitably felt a bit of a heartache.
"Babata, let me know if there is any news."
He was just planning to make plans for his future when before his words even finished-
"Master! Master!" Babata's screech carrying a trace of astonishment instantly exploded in Hu Yanbo's consciousness! "Quickly look at your exclusive Mercenary Alliance channel!!! Void True King's reply has come."
Hu Yanbo's heart fiercely skipped a beat! So fast?!
He instantly logged into the Virtual Universe, and sure enough, he saw that concise reply email:
"Accepted. Coordinates: XXXXX."
A moment later, Hu Yanbo's virtual consciousness appeared in a slightly empty and plainly furnished temporary quiet room space.
Void True King was already sitting upright within it.
"Junior Hu Yanbo pays respects to Lord Void True King!" Hu Yanbo respectfully bowed.
Void True King slightly nodded, his gaze lingering on Hu Yanbo, carrying a trace of undisguised appreciation.
Just in the brief moments of waiting earlier, a sliver of his consciousness had already connected to the internal database of the Universe Mercenary Alliance, pulling up more detailed information regarding Hu Yanbo.
This look, however, made him slightly surprised.
The data showed that this Hu Yanbo was a lone ranger, a rootless duckweed drifting in the sea of stars.
He neither possessed a prominent master-disciple background nor did he have a massive force behind him to support and rely on.
He completely relied on his own exploration, as well as fighting and seizing opportunities in various dangerous Cosmic Secret Realms, and had unexpectedly climbed all the way from a minuscule life form to the realm of a Marquis Immortal within sixty million years!
"This achievement, this speed..." Void True King evaluated in his heart, "Even if placed among those core disciples of the Virtual Universe Company or the Giant Axe Arena, it can definitely be considered top-tier!"
Void True King deeply knew the difficulty of cultivation.
Within the Universe Mercenary Alliance, and even the other four giants, how many core disciples had they nurtured?
Even those core members of the third tier (similar to the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm), after breaking through to immortality, the vast majority stopped at the Immortal Army Lord level for a lifetime, finding it hard to advance even an inch.
Even geniuses of the higher second tier (the Primordial Secret Realm) ultimately did not all become Marquises.
Even among the geniuses of the first tier (the Primal Secret Realm) who could break through bottlenecks and step into the King Rank, there were not many people!
Yet these geniuses were enjoying the best resource tilt of the race, along with many special treatments such as occasional guidance from immortal teachers and even venerables.
By comparison, Hu Yanbo completely relied on himself to achieve Marquis status; this talent, temperament, and perseverance were truly extraordinary.
From a long-term perspective, if he could obtain some opportunities and correct guidance, there might not necessarily be no possibility of stepping into King-rank immortality in the future.
This also caused Void True King's mindset-which originally was just casually accepting a mission-to gain a bit of genuine attention.
"I have words upfront: the seventh layer of the Void Tower is a qualitative change in soul defense! Difficult! Extremely difficult! Even harder than enslaving a Marquis! I have taught quite a few talented disciples; with their resources fully supplied and me frequently giving lectures, not a single one of them succeeded in comprehending it."
"Therefore!" he intensified his tone, "you must not harbor the idea of wanting to break through just from a single lecture!"
"So, do you still want to spend this price?" Void True King paused and continued.
Hu Yanbo's gaze was firm: "Thank you for the reminder, Lord Void True King!"
Void True King looked at him for a few seconds and nodded: "Alright, then let's begin."
He pointed his finger into the void, and a seven-layered pagoda projection composed of pure Void Divine Power emerged, the body of the tower circulating complex secret patterns.
"Look here," Void True King pointed at the tower base. "The sixth layer of the Void Tower makes your soul defense like a sturdy fortress, but that is dead! Meanwhile, the seventh layer requires making it 'come alive'!"
The teaching time passed quickly, and after Void True King finished explaining, the tower projection dissipated.
"Have you gained anything?" he asked, looking at Hu Yanbo with eyes full of appreciation.
The teaching process just now, rather than being his one-sided indoctrination, resembled more of a high-level question-and-answer exchange!
Whenever they reached critical difficulties or he tossed out doubts, Hu Yanbo was always able to precisely raise questions that hit the core, and could even make extremely fitting understandings and feedback on some minute details!
This depth of understanding far surpassed those painstakingly cultivated personal disciples of his!
Had Hu Yanbo not spent such a substantial amount of real gold and silver, he, Void True King, would have suspected that Hu Yanbo had already successfully cultivated the Void Tower.
Hu Yanbo took a deep breath, his face filled with a huge sense of "harvest" and "gratitude": "Understood! Completely understood! What Lord Void True King taught today points straight to the core, and the mist that has plagued this junior for many years has completely dispersed!"
"Mm, I have already sent the virtual universe encoding to you. If you have confusion during the subsequent construction process, you can try to contact me." Void True King's tone was calm. "Of course, this king is not necessarily online all the time, nor do I necessarily have time to answer."
"The path of cultivation ultimately has to rely on oneself."
"Many thanks for the favor, Lord Void True King!" Hu Yanbo respectfully replied.
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